already pointed out, this is also more than merely having a daily quiet time, as important as that is, or properly preparing to preach a sermon for the next Sunday. Instead, this coming to the end of ourselves is a life of openness to the heart-deep dealings of the Lord who alone can reduce us and remake us. This is also not a process that we can superintend on our own. We can only invite it. Just as one cannot physically crucify oneself, brokenness and the crucified life are not our own doing but